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Housing policy needs to prioritise housing’s function as a home, rather than an asset.
Blood Speaks: A Ritual Of Exile © Poulomi Basu
Chhaupadi, the practice of exiling menstruating women and girls from their home, often to a cow shed, is still practised in some areas of Western Nepal.
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Having a ‘period’ on the pill is far from necessary.
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Victorian Britain laid the foundations for today’s overconsumptive meat industry. Might it also show us a way out?
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Wild boars are being scapegoated for an epidemic of African swine flu that threatens the pork industry.
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The NHS has promised that by 2024, up to a third of hospital outpatient consultations will be undertaken by video link. This is unlikely to be realised quite so quickly.
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Looking after animals and saving the planet sounds like a good idea. But getting there is not as simple as a some people seem to imagine.
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Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
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Recycling on a large scale is a Bronze Age invention.
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Philip Pullman can help us understand what smartphones are doing to people – here’s how.
Illustrations from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
Reports of demonic possession are once again on the rise. But during the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests and physicians.
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Our obsession with busyness is about managing relationships – not just time.
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Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realised a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two millennia ago.
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Stories of substitution and surrogates are all too common in the wildlife trade, especially when it comes to medicines derived from animal parts.
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Nations may soon be desperate enough about global warming to consider deliberately engineering the world’s climate.
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Unlicensed music events are on the rise again – and the free parties of the 1980s and 90s show they’re not all bad.
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Britain – and many other countries – is facing an acute care crisis that is inextricably linked to the entrenchment of neoliberalism.
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Valuing nature is hardly natural.
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Academics from different disciplines come Head to Head in this series to tackle topical debates.
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The link that Ronald McDonald House creates between itself and sick children is not just positive, it is sacrosanct.